The Fractal Lab

The Fractal Lab is a Virtual Laboratory aimed at creating an
interdisciplinary network of scientists to disseminate the Fractal Geometry in
Medicine and Biology, develop public computer-aided resources and software and
discuss the advancement in the study of the human body as a complex system.

Since the formal coining by the mathematician and physicist Benoît B.
Mandelbrot (1924-2010) in his book "The Fractal Geometry of Nature" published
in 1977, the term Fractal (from the Latin fractus meaning "broken" or
"fractured") has entered in a plethora of fields of research, ranging from
Humanistic Social Sciences to Natural Sciences.

The increasing acquiescence that natural forms and processes underline a
complexity in shape and in time, not interpretable in terms of traditional
Euclidean Geometry and Linear Dynamics has led to a growing development of
Fractal-based concepts, mathematical tools and computer-aided methodologies
with controversial results and debated usefulness.

The aim of the first Fractal Virtual Laboratory is to generate an
interdisciplinary network of scientists to disseminate the Fractal Geometry in
Medicine and Biology, develop public computer-aided resources and software and
discuss the advancement in the study of the human body as a complex system.

Fractal Lab is an Open Virtual Laboratory where free tools become
available to the human community to be friendly applied and tested, discussed
and improved with the aim to disseminate a unique Language of Nature and
quantitative techniques universally acknowledged.

Researchers from around the World are warmly invited to propose: innovative
ideas, unsolved questions, new fields of debate, advanced experimental
procedures and computer-aided algorithms. It is encouraging that clinicians,
biologists, mathematicians, computer-scientists, psychologists, epistemologists
and philosophers contribute together towards a common understanding of Human
Complexity.

This multi-disciplinary approach may help to clarify old concepts, categorize
the actual knowledge, and suggest alternative strategies with potential
clinical value.

Fractal Lab: The Virtual Laboratory of knowledge and know-how
without barriers or preclusions, that provides controlled
conditions in which peoples operating in a unique Virtual Facility can
perform research, experiments, and measurement.